Word: bureau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week I thought you might be interested in reading something of what Sherrod sent home to News Bureau Chief David Hulburd about a war correspondent's life on Attu...
...Travel advertising took a sudden, self-conscious spurt, but had a frustrated tone. Lake George, N.Y. beckoned soothingly: "Everything within easy walking distance . . . you don't need a car." Sea Island, Ga. boasted: "No rationing of cool sea breezes." The Denver Convention & Visitors' Bureau: ". . . Thousands of young Americans training in and near Denver say they're coming back, when their job is done. . . ." "If," said the Mexican Tourist Association, "you plan to visit your boy in camp in the Southwest. . . ." La Province de Québec described its humming war plants, its R.C.A.F. training fields, shrugged: "Your...
There will soon be fewer men than women in the U.S., figured the Census Bureau. For 33 years the proportion of U.S. males to females has narrowed. Each year, with 100,000 fewer men, the U.S. has acquired 100,000 more spinsters. In 1910, men outnumbered women by 2,800,000. Soon - some time this year - women will be in the majority, regardless of war casualties. The U.S. will then be classed by census experts as an "elder" nation (in a "youthful" nation, men predominate...
...Some 3,679 old people solemnly assured census takers that they were centenarians. The Bureau admitted that the figure was dubious: many an oldster (far under the 100-year mark) has a fuzzy memory, a puckish wit, or both...
...neat blue suit was bewildered and nervous. Few men had ever taken a new Washington job under more awkward circumstances. He had become chief of OWI's domestic branch, succeeding Gardner ("Mike") Cowles Jr., Des Moines publisher, just after the House of Representatives had torpedoed the bureau by withholding its funds. The Senate had not yet acted, but there was stormy weather ahead for OWI. Edwin Palmer ("Ep") Hoyt had a right to be nervous...